LimeSDR Mini with Aluminum Case

This custom-made aluminum case comes with a LimeSDR Mini and two antennas. The case not only keeps your LimeSDR Mini safe, but it also helps reduce noise interference. Perfect to slip into your pocket for all your on-the-go wireless adventures.

Orders placed now ship Mar 31, 2018.

Free US Shipping / $15 Worldwide

$40

Acrylic Case

Keep your LimeSDR Mini safe in this custom acrylic case.

Orders placed now ship Mar 31, 2018.

Free US Shipping / $10 Worldwide

$40

Two Antennas

A pair of omni-directional antennas with SMA connectors, optimized for frequency ranges of 800-960 MHz, 1710-2170 MHz, and 2400-2700 MHz.

An open, full-duplex, USB stick radio for femtocells and more.

As Featured In

"This is very inexpensive and very fun - on the Crowd Supply page, you can see a demo of a LimeSDR mini set up as an LTE base station, streaming video between two mobile phones. These are the golden days of hobbyist SDR."

"[LimeSDR] was launched last year with the promise of integration with Ubuntu Snap Store allowing to easily download and install various radio implementations such as LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth, LoRa, etc… [now there's] a cheaper and low end version"

"Simply put, the LimeSDR Mini is a smaller, less expensive version of the original LimeSDR. However, it still packs a punch – at its core, the LimeSDR Mini uses the same LMS7002M radio transceiver as its big sibling."

"The LimeSDR Mini development board is a hardware platform for developing and prototyping high-performance and logic-intensive digital and RF designs that use Altera’s MAX 10 FPGA and Lime Microsystems’ LMS7002M RF transceiver."

"Electronic enthusiasts, hobbyists and makers searching for a hardware platform to develop high-performance and logic intensive digital and RF designs, may be interested in a development board and full-duplex USB stick radio called the LimeSDR Mini."

The LimeSDR Mini development board is a hardware platform for
developing and prototyping high-performance and logic-intensive
digital and RF designs that use Altera’s MAX 10 FPGA and Lime
Microsystems’ LMS7002M RF transceiver.

Render of the LimeSDR Mini

Top render of LimeSDR Mini

Bottom render of LimeSDR MIni

LimeSDR vs LimeSDR Mini

The LimeSDR and LimeSDR Mini are members of the same family of
software-defined radios. One does not replace the other. Rather, they
are complementary.

Simply put, the LimeSDR Mini is a smaller, less expensive version of
the original
LimeSDR. However, it
still packs a punch - at its core, the LimeSDR Mini uses the same
LMS7002M radio transceiver as its big sibling. The Mini has two
channels instead of four, and, by popular demand, SMA connectors
instead of micro U.FL connectors. Check out the comparison
table below for more details.

We’ve already shipped thousands of LimeSDR boards and they are
now available for purchase from stock. The
LimeSDR Mini is built on the LimeSDR supply chain, dev tools, and
community in a way that makes software-defined radio more accessible
than ever.

2 x coaxial RF (SMA) connectors (each can be switched between high and low frequency bands)

U.FL connector for external clock source

FPGA GPIO headers

FPGA JTAG connector

Clock system:

30.72 MHz onboard VCTCXO

Possibility to tune VCTCXO with onboard DAC

External clock input via U.FL connector

Board dimensions: 69 mm x 31.4 mm

Block Diagram

LimeSDR Mini block diagram

Comparison Table

HackRF One

Ettus B200

Ettus B210

BladeRF x40

RTL-SDR

LimeSDR

LimeSDR Mini

Frequency Range

1 MHz - 6 GHz

70 MHz - 6 GHz

70 MHz - 6 GHz

300 MHz - 3.8 GHz

22 MHz - 2.2 GHz

100 kHz - 3.8 GHz

10 MHz - 3.5 GHz

RF Bandwidth

20 MHz

61.44 MHz

61.44 MHz

40 MHz

3.2 MHz

61.44 MHz

30.72 MHz

Sample Depth

8 bit

12 bit

12 bit

12 bit

8 bit

12 bit

12 bit

Sample Rate

20 MSPS

61.44 MSPS

61.44 MSPS

40 MSPS

3.2 MSPS

61.44 MSPS

30.72MSPS

TX Channels

1

1

2

1

0

2

1

RX Channels

1

1

2

1

1

2

1

Duplex

Half

Full

Full

Full

N/A

Full

Full

Interface

USB 2.0

USB 3.0

USB 3.0

USB 3.0

USB 2.0

USB 3.0

USB 3.0

Programmable Logic Gates

64 macrocell CPLD

75k

100k

40k (115k avail)

N/A

40k

16K

Chipset

MAX5864, MAX2837, RFFC5072

AD9364

AD9361

LMS6002M

RTL2832U

LMS7002M

LMS7002M

Open Source

Full

Schematic, Firmware

Schematic, Firmware

Schematic, Firmware

No

Full

Full

Oscillator Precision

+/- 20 ppm

+/- 2 ppm

+/- 2 ppm

+/- 1 ppm

?

+/-1 ppm initial, +/-4 ppm stable

+/- 1 ppm initial, +/- 4 ppm stable

Transmit Power

-10 dBm+ (15 dBm @ 2.4 GHz)

10 dBm+

10 dBm+

6 dBm

N/A

max 10 dBm (depending on freq.)

max 10 dBm (depending on freq.)

Price

$299

$686

$1,119

$420 ($650)

~$10

$299

$99

Accessories

In addition to the LimeSDR Mini iteself, we’re also offering a few
accessories.

Enclosure

We’ve designed a custom acrylic enclosure to protect your LimeSDR Mini
and make it easy to throw it into your pocket or bag without worrying
about damaging the board.

Prototype LimeSDR MIni and acrylic case

Antennas

We’re offering omni-directional antennas with SMA connectors,
optimized for frequency ranges of 800-960 MHz, 1710-2170 MHz, and
2400-2700 MHz. These are the same same antennas used with the
full-size LimeSDR.

LimeSDR Mini antennas with SMA connectors

Grove Starter Kit

We’ve partnered with Seeed Studio to
develop a new low-cost kit based around the LimeSDR Mini, Grove
platform, and Raspberry Pi, that together provides everything you need
to get started learning SDR basics and developing IoT applications.

The kit packages a LimeSDR Mini with antennas optimised for
433/868/915 MHz unlicensed bands, plus a GrovePi+ and selection of
incredibly useful Grove sensors and outputs, many of which are
supported by a Scratch
extension. When
combined with our ScratchRadio
extension, this will allow
the creation of simple and fun applications that integrate SDR
capabilities and peripheral I/O.

Of course, use is not limited to Scratch and educational environments,
and we’ll also be putting together examples that demonstrate how the
kit can be used to develop applications that integrate with existing
off-the-shelf systems, such as wireless thermostats and remote
controls.

Kit Contents

1 x LimeSDR Mini

2 x Antennas optimised for 433/868/915MHz unlicensed bands use

1 x Acrylic base plate

1 x Short USB extension

1 x GrovePi+

1 x Grove - Ultrasonic Ranger

1 x Grove - Temp&Humi Sensor

1 x Grove - Temperature Sensor

1 x Grove - Rotary Angle Sensor

1 x Grove - Button

1 x Grove - Light Sensor v1.2

1 x Grove - 3-Axis Digital Accelerometer (±1.5 g)

1 x Grove - Relay

1 x Grove - Sound Sensor

1 x Grove - LCD RGB Backlight

1 x Grove - Buzzer

1 x Grove - Red LED

1 x Grove - LED Bar 2.0

1 x Grove - Touch Sensor

1 x Grove - Piezo Vibration Sensor

Grove Starter Kit for LimeSDR MIni

Free & Open Source

As with the original LimeSDR, the LimeSDR Mini is a free and open
source
project made in collaboration with the
Myriad-RF project. We will be releasing code,
firmware, schematics, layout, and associated project files shortly.

LimeSuite

The LimeSDR Mini uses the same host-side software, called LimeSuite,
as the full-size LimeSDR. LimeSuite is entirely open source and
supports a variety of software-defined radios. You can learn more
about LimeSuite at its GitHub
repository and Myriad-RF
project page.

Snappy Ubuntu Core

A big part of the LimeSDR ecosystem is the Snappy Ubuntu Core app
store
being developed jointly with Canonical and the LimeSDR
community. Because the LimeSDR and LimeSDR Mini use the same drivers
and APIs, the snaps developed for one should work equally well for the
other so long as they are within the operating specification.

Development Status

We currently have working prototypes and don’t expect any major
changes before going to production. We’ve had a great working
relationship with our manufacturing partner for a number of years
already – they were also the manufacturer for LimeSDR – and we know
they can deliver high-quality, well-tested assembled boards. The
working prototype shown in the images below has MMCX connectors - the
final version will have two SMA connectors and a U.FL connector for external clock input.

LimeSDR Mini prototype. The final version will have two SMA connectors and a U.FL external clock connector.

LimeSDR Mini prototype. The final version will have two SMA connectors and a U.FL external clock connector.

LimeSDR Mini prototype. The final version will have two SMA connectors and a U.FL external clock connector.

Risks & Challenges

As in the original LimeSDR campaign, the supply chain is the biggest
risk – parts shortages could delay production. However, since the
critical parts we’re using in LimeSDR Mini are the same as those in
the LimeSDR, the Mini will benefit from the considerable work we’ve
already put into creating the LimeSDR supply chain.

Shipping & Fulfillment

All orders will be shipped from Crowd Supply’s warehouse in the United
States. For a product of this scale, maintaining a separate
fulfillment operation in Europe is not economically feasible and would
actually increase the overall cost to the end customer. You can find
out more about Crowd Supply’s shipping fulfillment in their
Guide.